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Sponsored Research Projects       

• Bimodal Interpretable Multi-instane Medical Image Classification Aapproah by Deep AUC Maximization. NSF SCH (2023) Lead PI with Co-PI Tong Wang (Yale) and Bathla Girish (Mayo Clinic).
• Deep Learning and Subtyping of Post-COVID-19 Lung Progression Phenotypes., NIH R01 (2023). Co-I and Thrust Lead (with PI Dr. Chin-long Lin at UIowa).
• Improving Adversarial Robustness of AI for Autonomous Driving, GM Gift Funding (2022). Sole PI.
• FAI: Advancing Optimization for Threshold-Agnostic Fair AI Systems, NSF-Amazon Joint Fair AI Program (2022-2025). Lead PI (with Qihang Lin from UIowa, Mingxuan Sun from LSU).
• Concurrent allocation and planning for large-scale multi-robot systems, Amazon Research Award (2022-2023). Co-PI (with PI Venanzio Cichella from UIowa).
• Collaborative Research: RI: Small: Robust Deep Learning with Big Imbalanced Data, NSF RI Core Program (2021-2024). Lead PI (with Yiming Ying from UAlbany).
• CAREER: Advancing Constrained and Non-Convex Learning, NSF Early Career Development Program (2019-2024). Sole PI. Details
• Collaborative Research: Online Data Stream Fusion and Deep Learning for Virtual Meter in Smart Power Distribution Systems, NSF EPCN-Energy-Power-Control-Networks Program (2019-2022). Site PI (Collaborative Proposal with PIs from WSU).
• Efficient Algorithms for Training GAN, Tencent Faculty Award (2019-2020). Sole PI.
• More robust training of deep neural networks, Alibaba Gift Funding (2019-2021). Sole PI.
• SCH: INT: Collaborative Research: A Framework for Optimizing Hearing Aids In Situ Based on Patient Feedback, Auditory Context, and Audiologist Input, NSF Smart and Connected Health Program (2019-2022). Co-PI (with PI Octav Chipara).
• New Algorithms of Online Machine Learning for Big Data, NSF BIGDATA Program (2015-2018). PI (with Co-PI Padmini Srinivasa). Details
• Scaling up Distance Metric Learning for Large-scale Ultrahigh-dimensional Data, NSF CRII Program (2015-2017). Sole PI. Details
• Deep Learning for Fine-grained Image Classification, Gift Funding from NEC Labs America (2014-2015). Sole PI.